This blog post for the May 2018 DevRelate webinar “2018 Running a DevRel Program using Cloud Technologies” contains additional information and web links for the topics covered. This blog post will be updated during the webinar week and in the days following.

Topics covered during the webinar include the following developer program features, best practices and how you can use “no cost” or “low cost” cloud services to provide the infrastructure you need to start or extend your offerings:

• Social Marketing
• Blogs
• Newsletters
• Webinars
• Code Samples
• Videos
• Documentation
• Answers
• Events & Activities
• News Feeds
• Sandboxes, Virtual Labs
• App Stores & App showcases
• Chat Systems
• Feature Requests
• Training & Certification
• and more

 

Past Webinars that Covered DevRel Best Practices

• DevRel Best Practices – Part 1
• DevRel Best Practices – Part 2

 

Free cloud platforms you can start with

• Amazon AWS Free – https://aws.amazon.com/free/
• Microsoft Azure Free – https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/free/
• Google Cloud Platform Free – https://cloud.google.com/free/
• IBM Cloud Free – https://console.bluemix.net/registration/free

 

Free (or low cost) cloud services you can use

Alerts

• Google Alerts – Monitor the Web for interesting new content

Answers

• Newest ‘mastercard’ Questions – Stack Overflow
• https://stackoverflow.com/feeds/tag?tagnames=delphi&sort=newest

Blogs

• Medium – Read, write and share stories that matter
• WordPress.com: Create a free website or blog

Calendars

• Bitrix24: Free Collaboration Platform With CRM, Tasks, Projects, Documents, Messaging And Much More
• Teamup Calendar – Free shared online calendar for groups

Conference Calls

• FreeConferenceCall.com – Free Audio Conferencing
• Free Conference Calling – Free Conference Call Service
• Sktype – Free conference calls and group video chat
• InstantConference – Free Conference Call Service

Events

• Meetup – We are what we do

Feedback

• Freshdesk – Customer Support Software & Ticketing System
• UserReport: Simple user engagement tools, that help you improve
• UserVoice – Product Overview
• Userback – Real time customer feedback and bug tracking
• Discord – Features

Groups

• Google Groups
• Google Hangouts
• Slack – Where work happens
• Mobilize.io
• Trello

Newsetters/Feeds

• MailChimp – Marketing Platform for Small Businesses
• RSS to Email – Blog Powered Newsletters by Nourish
• NewsBlur
• Inoreader – The content reader for power users who want to save time.
• Feedly

Code Projects

• CodeProject – For those who code
• Wantoo

Sandbox/Labs

• Sandbox – Quickly create REST API and SOAP mock web services
• GDB online Debugger | Compiler – Code, Compile, Run, Debug online C, C++
• Coliru C++ online
• Online Compiler and Editor/IDE for Java, C, C++, PHP, Python, Ruby, Perl – Code and Run Online
• Tryit Editor v3.5 – HTML, CSS, Javascript

Shops

• Freewebstore – Create your Free eCommerce Website
• Square – Credit Card Processing – Accept Credit Cards Anywhere
• Storenvy – Open A Store
• Big Cartel – Easy Online Stores for Artists and Makers
• Weebly Website Builder: Create a Free Website, Store or Blog
• Wix.com – Free Website Builder

Social Sites

• Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Facebook
• Google+

Social Tools

• Social Mention – Real Time Search
• Socialoomph – Tools to Boost Your Social Media Productivity
• Blog2Social – share blog posts to Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, google+, Instagram, Pinterest
• Hootsuite – Social Media Marketing & Management Dashboard
• Budder – Social Media Management Platform

Storage

• Google Drive
• Google One – One simple way to get more out of Google
• <pCloud

Training

• MoodleCloud – Moodle hosting from the people that make Moodle.
• Khan Academy – Free Online Courses, Lessons & Practice

Videos/Webinars

• YouTube
• Zoom – Video Conferencing, Web Conferencing, Webinars, Screen Sharing
• Twitch TV – Programming
• Periscope – Watch LIVE
• Cloudup
• LiveEdu.tv
• Facebook – Tell Rich Stories with Facebook Video
• Open Broadcaster Software
• Twitch Developers

 

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